(VOVWORLD) - One new case of COVID-19 detected late Wednesday has brought the national tally to 1,521, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) -The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Transport has suspended inbound flights from the UK and South Africa, and countries and territories infected with a new variant of SARS-CoV-2.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has shown that there is indeed an effective way to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, even in the absence of a vaccine that can allow an economy to recover, according to Helge Berger, Assistant Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

(VOVWORLD) - The Rusvesna (Russian Spring) e-newspaper on Monday posted an article on Vietnam’s achievements in economic development, poverty reduction, COVID-19 prevention and control, and foreign affairs under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Prime Minister has requested that from now until the Lunar New Year holiday, all repatriation flights to Vietnam be considered carefully by the Foreign Ministry and the Ministries of Health, Public Security, Defence, and Transport, and submitted to the PM for approval.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to minimize the number of flights carrying Vietnamese citizens back home from now until the lunar New Year holiday (Tet), which falls in mid-February, as more contagious variants of coronavirus have been detected in many countries.

(VOVWORLD) - Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) will soon arrive in China for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Wakamono, a Ho Chi Minh City-based company that specialises in producing nano biotech materials, has invented a medical mask that is capable of killing more than 99 percent of both gram-negative and -positive bacteria, and enveloped and non-enveloped virus.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK government said on Sunday that it has mobilized 1 billion USD to help "vulnerable countries" access the COVID-19 vaccine by connecting donors to countries in need.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Sunday morning, January 10, more than 90 million people worldwide have contracted the coronavirus and the death toll rises to 1.93 million, according to worldometers.info.